Alejandro Jodorowsky Thinks COVID-19 Can Change Cinema (for the Better)
Alejandro Jodorowsky is 91 years old...and he's still dreaming. The mind behind movies like El Topo and The Holy Mountain has not settled on old...
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Locarno’s Open Doors Spotlights Trends, Challenges for Southeast Asian Filmmakers
The coronavirus pandemic might have brought production to a standstill across Southeast Asia earlier this year, but the continued growth of...
Amid India’s Pandemic, Independent Artists Thrive Outside the Bollywood Machine
August is traditionally a vibrant period for India’s music industry, with myriad music festivals announced from October through February and tour...
China Box Office: Sam Mendes’ ‘1917’ Tops Flat Weekend
Sam Mendes’ 1917 topped China’s box office over the three-day weekend (7 to 9 August), grossing $5.2m, according to figures from...
Disney Confirms Launch of Disney+ Hotstar in Indonesia
The Walt Disney Company has confirmed that it will roll out its streaming service Disney+ Hotstar in Indonesia on 5 September,...
iQIYI International Begins Filming ‘The Ferryman: Legends of Nanyang’, the Company’s First Original Drama for Southeast Asia
iQIYI International, an on-demand video streaming platform bringing popular Asian content to an international audience, today announced that the company has...
Grasshopper Takes U.S. Rights for Tsai Ming-Liang’s Berlin Title ‘Days’
Speciality distributor Grasshopper Film has acquired U.S. distribution rights for Taiwanese auteur Tsai Ming-liang’s Days and will release the film in cinemas in 2021....
Korea Box Office: ‘Steel Rain 2’ Keeps Cinemas in Motion
Action thriller Steel Rain 2: Summit dominated the South Korean box office in its opening weekend. In doing so, it knocked Peninsula from...
Malaysian Animated Franchise ‘Boboiboy’ Gets Global Love With Upcoming Debut in Turkish Cinemas
Animated franchise BoBoiBoy has done Malaysia proud by scoring upcoming premieres in Turkish cinemas. BoBoiBoy: The Movie and BoBoiBoy Movie 2 will be thrilling...
Inside Netflix’s Quest to Become a Global TV Giant
Netflix’s Bela Bajaria first came up in the entertainment industry in the mid-1990s as an assistant at CBS, after mailing letters to “hundreds...
Malaysian Government Walks Back Filming Rules After Political Overreach
Malaysian authorities have largely reversed a ruling made last week that would have required every conceivable form of film-making to apply...
Box Office Down by 92% in Asia as Coronavirus Wipes Out First Half Year
By now it is common knowledge that the coronavirus pandemic has been bad for cinema box office. New data for the Asia-Pacific region...